Call for Papers:The Journal of Natural Language Processing

Special issue on Natural Language Processing for Information Access and its Evaluation

Purpose

Roles that natural language processing technologies plays are getting important, as sophistication and diversification of information access increase. Cross language information retrieval and spoken document retrieval use machine translation and document analysis respectively, and have established new styles of information access. Question answering needs several natural language processing technologies such as textual entailment recognition. At the same time, such use of those in the information access field affords to natural language processing technologies opportunities to be evaluated in their contribution to that field. There have been a lot of evaluation experiments and evaluation workshops. Viewing natural language processing from such perspectives may create new paradigms. Driven by these interests, we invite papers on natural language processing for information access and its evaluation.

Paper Submission

All submissions will undergo the review process as regular papers of the The Association of Natural Language Processing. The style of manuscripts should follow the manuscript guide to journal publication found in the home page. Manuscripts should be sent to kato@boz.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp by e-mail of the subject, "Special issue on Natural Language Processing for Information Access and its Evaluation."